Does mother’s kidney disease pass on to the next generation?

Kidney disease is not usually hereditary when the mother has it. Except for some rare hereditary diseases, all other kidney diseases are caused by immune dysfunction, resulting in the deposition of immune complexes in the kidneys. The main hereditary kidney diseases are polycystic kidney and thin basement membrane nephropathy, and many people in the family have kidney diseases, except for these, other kidney diseases are not hereditary. In addition, there are some IgA nephropathies, which may have the tendency to gather in families. After suffering from kidney disease, you must go to the hospital regularly to review the urine routine, urine protein quantification, creatinine, urea these indicators to assess the kidney situation, as well as regular oral medication to prevent further damage to kidney function. For children, regular annual checkups are needed to detect early kidney damage through urine routine, and if there is a positive urine protein occult blood, it indicates kidney-related diseases, and further visits to the nephrology department of the hospital are needed to clarify the diagnosis and develop a treatment plan.